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By RACHEL WACHMAN

As parents and advocates gathered alongside students at a rally in support of special education funding outside the State House  with many more students and educators participating from their classrooms via Zoom – the Monitor spoke to attendees about the impacts special education has had in their lives. Here are some of those individuals and their stories.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The Merrimack Valley School District exceeded its approved budget by more than $2 million last school year, the superintendent acknowledged this week, more than two months after district administrators became aware of the full extent of the shortfall.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Barb Higgins wants her fellow school board members to stop delaying the inevitable. The Concord Board of Education has been weighing the location of the new middle school should go to a public vote, either in the spring or the fall, or to simply work...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Merrimack Valley High School senior Alison Lamontagne’s first foray into New Hampshire’s All-State Music Festival came not as a trumpeter, but rather as a vocalist.“When I was in eighth grade, I was approached by my band director and he heard me sing...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Longtime University of New Hampshire Police Chief Paul Dean, under scrutiny for his role in the response to a pro-Palestine protest last May, will leave the university to become incoming Governor Kelly Ayotte’s director of citizen services.The...

By MAUREEN F. PROHL

Maureen F. Prohl lives in Elkins. This year’s annual KRSD Deliberative Session held on Jan. 4, will hopefully serve as a warning, as the proverbial canary in the coal mine, that public education is under attack.Hopefully, it will serve as a wake-up...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

More than 1,400 residents flooded Kearsarge Regional High School on Saturday morning to prevent their school district from becoming the next Croydon or Pembroke. In a show of rousing support for public education, voters soundly defeated a proposal...

By SPENCER WYAND

Spencer Wyand lives in Bradford. Education funding in New Hampshire has gotten pretty interesting of late. I have no issue, or at least had no issue, paying for education for kids.However, this conversation has become so dishonest and insane that I...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Protests from outsiders and potential harm to students are driving the Bow School District’s continuing efforts to prevent parents from resuming pink armband demonstrations against transgender athletes, according to documents filed in a federal court...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A school bus company employee says she was fired for speaking up about safety issues on Kearsarge Regional and Manchester School District buses, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court last month.Alison Jones, a corporate employee at the bus...

By SETH C. ORANBURG

Seth Oranburg, a law professor at UNH in Concord, advocates for stronger ties between New Hampshire and its institutions. As 2024 ends, many of us are resolving to strengthen our personal relationships in the New Year: Hey Siri, remind me to put my...

By SUE MCKEVITT

Sue McKevitt lives in Bradford. On Jan. 4, the Kearsarge Regional School Board will hold a deliberative session, voters only chance for input, to discuss the proposed upcoming year’s school budget. Included is Article #5, crafted by petition, to put...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

The first major school funding battle of 2025 will come just four days into the new year when residents of the Kearsarge Regional School District gather at their high school to vote on a proposed school budget cap.The frustration that fomented...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Pembroke Academy Spanish teacher Reilly Paquin’s grade book is filling up fast.Halfway through the school year, the tenth-year teacher has resorted to providing written rather than verbal feedback at least a dozen more times than she ordinarily would...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

As Michael Simon departed Cafe One East in downtown Warner on a frigid afternoon before Christmas, he was already looking past the holidays and toward the new year with trepidation.On the first Saturday of January, residents of the Kearsarge Regional...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — Dartmouth College Child Care Center employees voted to unionize this week, a little more than a week after the college announced it had dropped plans to pursue partnering with a for-profit child care provider to operate the center.On...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

As the Challenger launch date approached in January 1986, sixth-grader Kim Bleier rushed home from the Conant School each afternoon to catch the latest news on television, captivated by a mission that was set to make Concord High School social studies...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

In a move that is becoming more common across the state, a group of residents is vying to slash the Kearsarge Regional School District budget by an amount district leaders contend would force them to lay off scores of educators and close schools.The...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Complicating the road forward for the Pembroke school district is yet another high-profile departure, this time from Superintendent Patty Sherman, who announced that she will retire at the end of the school year.Sherman becomes the latest district...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Two of Heather Sargent’s children came home crying on Monday afternoon after their bus driver, Shawn Newell – known as “Mr. Shawn” to the kids he transports – was removed from his role driving for Allenstown Community School’s purple bus route, she...

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Longtime educator Dan Morris will step down as headmaster of Pembroke Academy at the end of this school year, he announced earlier this month.The fallout from voters’ $3 million cut to the proposed school budget contributed to his decision to...